Osteichthyes - Elonichthyiformes
Parent taxon: Actinopterygii according to A. S. Bakaev et al. 2020
See also Minikh and Minikh 2009, Nelson 2006 and Prokofiev 2005
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Acrolepidae Acrolepididae Eigiliidae Elonichthyidae Gonatodidae Samarichthys Varialepididae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of Argentina (3 collections), Australia (3), Canada (1: Alberta), France (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3)
• Tatarian of the Russian Federation (9)
• Permian of Australia (1), Brazil (5), Czechia (3), France (1), Germany (12), Greenland (4), Kazakhstan (2), Lithuania (1), Namibia (1), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (58), South Africa (9), the United Kingdom (6), United States (17: New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas), Uruguay (1), Zimbabwe (1)
• Chokierian of Belgium (1)
• Namurian of France (1)
• Carboniferous to Permian of South Africa (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (2), Belarus (4), Belgium (2), Canada (9: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia), Czechia (68), France (1), Germany (4), Greenland (1), Ireland (1), Namibia (2), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (1), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (115), United States (12: Illinois, New Mexico, Scotland)
• Devonian of Belarus (1), Belgium (1), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 376 collections including 584 occurrences